Extra premium to be charged for calls at Togo

Togo has been added to the Joint War Committee's listed areas where
additional war risk premiums are charged ,
according to a bulletin published by the Lloyd's Maritime Association
this week. The Joint War Committee has added Togo to the "Hull War,
Piracy, Terrorism and Related Perils" list, which includes Nigeria,
Benin and parts of the Gulf of Guinea, in response to attacks on ships
and a growing piracy threat in the region. This follows news last week
from the International Maritime Organization that West African heads of
state will meet at the end of June to adopt a code to fight growing
piracy in their coastal waters that would include the use of arrests,
prosecutions and seizures of ships. According to data from the
International Maritime Bureau published earlier in the year, there has
been a growing trend for piracy attacks in the Gulf of Guinea including
in the Togo area.